AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/14/2009

Happy Wednesday! This has been a great week already! Hope the same is said for your week! Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

Web Development/Designer Resources

• 5 Illustration Artists to Watch | Brain Pickings
  Awesome Illustrations!!
• Free Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorial | Moving Banner Ad Template from Illustrator to Photoshop | Layers Magazine
  Templates from Illustrator to Photoshop Tutorial
• Dunlap Studios – Design, Illustration and Print » Designing On A Budget
  Design on a Shoestring(budget)!
• Diving into PHP: Video Series – NETTUTS
  Dive into PHP! My fav language!
• Jcrop – Deep Liquid
  jQuery Image Cropping Plugin!
  (tags: design graphics library crop jQuery webdevelopment webdesign web programming development tools webdev web2.0 CSS php images AJAX tool javascript plugin Plugins photo ui image JS jcrop thumbnail cropping)

iPhone

• 70+ Free iPhone Apps for Social Media Mavens
  Free iPhone Social Media Apps!
  (tags: blog Applications tools app iphone social socialmedia apps ideas media iphone3g mashable free)
• Use Your iPhone to Get News Happening Around You
  Do we ever really think of local news anymore?
• TG Daily – iSteam for iPhone earns a bunch of 22-year olds $100,000 in one month
  I should get into the iPhone App Business!

Web Developer/Designer Inspirations

• design:related – Best of 2008: A List of Design Lists
  Best 2008 Design Compilation EVER
  (tags: design technology webdesign inspiration photography 2008 Resources roundups list article lists bestof2008 bestof best)
• AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/13/2009 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  Happy Tuesday! This has been a great week already! Hope the same is said for your week! Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!! Web
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily links)
• CSS gallery CSS TEA – 56 websites with awesome footers
  Awesome sites with SWEET Footer Designs!
  (tags: design web2.0 web-design inspiracion CSS web webdesign list Tutorials inspiration graphics unread footer work Resources blog webdev showcase creative css-gallery footers later)
• Design Inspiration Toolbox: 100 Sources of Design Inspiration
  Awesome Resource for Inspiration!!
  (tags: design showcase Web_Design graphics resource web webdesign Resources tools list graphicdesign template typography best interface gallery inspiration collection web-design wordpress websites directory toolbox)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/13/2009 – Pligg Beta 9
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/13/2009 – Happy Tuesday! This has been a great week already! Hope the same is said for your week! Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources dev)
• 50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration | Fuel Your Creativity
  Some Freaking Awesome Logos!!
  (tags: design reference cards diseño gallery typography branding graphicdesign creativity logos examples identity brand illustration advertising marketing graphic list web2.0 blog Resources webdesign graphics Inspiration photoshop cool Art ideas logo logotipos)
• Photoshop Adbusting In Berlin | BRAND INFECTION
  Simply AWESOME Ad in Berlin. Nice!
  (tags: photoshop advertising awesome berlin)
• 40+ tutorials and tips to realize your logo | Best Photoshop Tutorials
  Awesome Tutorials and Tips to Inspire your own logo!!
  (tags: design article links logo logos information documentation Tutorials photoshop tutorial list Resources Inspiration)
• TechEBlog » Feature: Photographer Takes Pictures of Trump Tower Chicago for 4-Years, Puts Them Into 2-Minute Time Lapse Clip
  This is just cool, trump has a nice tower.
  (tags: chicago)
• Inspiration : Photmanipulation | Cerium’s blog
  Some really nice PhotoManipulations!

Freebies

• Abstract Light Photoshop Brushes « Sharebrain
  Nice Light Brushes!!
• Free Twitter Bird Icon Set – Productivedreams.com
  More FREE Twitter bird Icons!
  (tags: twitter icons twitchboard twittertools icon)
• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – 105 Stunning Retro Tech-Shaped Illustrator Brushes
  Incredible Tech Shaped Brushes and Ideas on how to use them!!
  (tags: illustrator Resources vector tutorial brushes photoshop freebies vectors resource pixelart download done graphics)
• 120 Free Icon Sets to Enhance User Interfaces | Back to Essentials
  OK. now these are some awesome Icons.
  (tags: stock icon set)

UX/UI

• 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Amazing Read! Nice Techniques! any web application should have these
  (tags: design webdev tool application smashing_magazine jQuery apps tools web webdesign web2.0 tips ui smashingmagazine useful usability CSS inspiration Resources free programming development javascript smashing interface webapp ux gui form techniques)
• Increasing Usability with User Feedback | UX Booth
  Great Tips for enhancing usability with user feedback!!
  (tags: webdesign userexperience ux usability tools bestof)

Freebies

• Photoshop Guys Scott Kelby Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski Discuss Photoshop CS4 | Layers Magazine
  Part 2 of the Photoshop CS4 Discussion!

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• Web Development Project Estimator
  Very VERY Useful tool for freelancers, good idea.
  (tags: design business web-design money calculator cost project projectmanagement programming web webdesign Resources development webdev tools webdevelopment freelance tool useful apps management freelancing generator budget price pricing finance estimation estimate estimator)
• Scoble and Garyvee at CES: Successful Blogging in Troubled Times
  GREAT Keynotes from CES – Scoble and Garyvee

Social Media

• Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper | Webware – CNET
  Interesting campaign LOL. Whopper Sacrifice – Delete 10 Facebook friends and get a free Whopper! LOL

Programming

• Coding Horror: Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes
  Don't let these mistakes happen to you!
  (tags: web Security software top development code dev bestpractice php webdev tips mistakes articles computer reference error bugs hacks programming javascript freeware hack codinghorror)
• 10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content
  Awesome Techniques using jQuery!!
  (tags: design tutorial gallery scripts AJAX effects tips web webdesign slideshow list webdevelopment development tools carousel JS interface slider mootools Resources programming Tutorials CSS content jquery ui lightbox javascript code webdev)
• How to Validate Forms in both sides using PHP and jQuery | yensdesign – Tutorials, Web Design and Coding
  Validate forms with jQuery AND PHP
  (tags: webdesign tutorial CSS usability jQuery html coding php)
• Five Ways to Become a Better Software Developer – Josh Talks Flash
  Nice Tips for Being a Better Software Developer! Link Provided by @robertbasic !!
  (tags: to_read development tips programming software productivity career)
• Custom feedburner counter | Torsten Curdt's weblog
  Use PHP to create a custom feedburner Counter!!
  (tags: webdesign webdev blogging AJAX feedburner)

Twitter

• HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community
  How NOT to build your twitter community!
  (tags: web socialmedia microblogging 2.0 tweetmarks socialnetworking web2.0 tips howto article social social_networking mashable community marketing Facebook media twitter etiquette how-to pr build safety conversation opinion donts meet social-media networking)

Google

• Google Scoops Up Del.icio.us Founder – ReadWriteWeb
  Google hired Del.icio.us Founder
  (tags: google news delicious del.icio.us yahoo!)
• Official Google Blog: Google's new favicon
  The Story Behind Googles New Favicon
  (tags: design branding favicons crowdsource icon blog internet websites blogs website google ideas image new communication 2009 favicon official)

Browsers

• IE continues losing market share to open source browsers
  FireFox is PWNING IE. as it should be.
  (tags: business Browser firefox ie marketing)

Adobe Air

• 19 useful articles from web on Adobe AIR
  Nice Articles for Adobe Air users!
  (tags: article adobe air)

WordPress

• TweetSuite: Complete Twitter Integration With WordPress
  TweetSuite is the hottest thing for WordPress right now!
  (tags: social design wp tweets tweetbacks opensource tools software web2.0 wordpress blogs Plugins tweet social_media media plugin client blogging technology wordpress-plugins twitter socialmedia api blog wordpress_plugins tweetsuite wordpress:plugin social_networking integration)

Blogging

• Share your content with Creative Commons | Blog For Profit
  Good article – Use Creative Commons!
• How Do You Blog? | Phire Design
  Learn from the best! Awesome Designers!
  (tags: design twitchboard Inspiration productivity blog community interview)

Tutorials

• 27 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials to Design Decent Web Layouts
  Best DECENT Web Layout Tutorials! Some awesome ones!
  (tags: design webdev graphics graphicdesign download layouts free web webdesign web2.0 tutorial photoshop CSS cool templates resource collection html template layout Browser website Tutorials howto blog development Resources reference Inspiration list)
• Create a Furious Pink Panther Poster | GoMediaZine
  Awesome Illustration Tutorial!!
  (tags: design tutorial painting photoshop photoshop_tutorial graphicdesign illustration todo posters post)

THE FWA – For Sale

• The FWA – For Sale – Buyers Sought
  Got tons of money? Super famous TheFWA is up for sale

Laugh of the Day

• Time Cube
  This is just hilarious because the guy is serious LOL – provided by @evantravers
  (tags: blog awesome philosophy physics education reference cool internet fun funny humor interesting math science humour random time bizarre theory religion wtf weird strange rant madness insane cube timecube crazy conspiracy)

Free Tools

• Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
  Great tool for Brainstorming an article!!
  (tags: design online writing search web reference creativity dictionary language interesting web2.0 tools visualization dictionaries flash words thesaurus vocabulary linguistics graphical tool fun learning cool free graphics education mindmap english)
• Zoodango: Find What's Interesting Around You
  Find whats interesting AROUND you
• Free Tool To Count Words In PDF, HTML, XML, CSV, And Text Files – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  Free tools to count words in your favorite file formats!

SEO

• 7 SEO blogs and 21 useful articles | David Airey » graphic designer, logo designer
  Great blogs and Articles about SEO!
  (tags: web optimization blog reading Resources tips article links SEO advice search optimisation)